The Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry will recognize two local businesses at its upcoming annual dinner.

Hoover Financial Advisors PC and Victory Brewing Co. will be presented with awards at the 850-member chamber’s Small Business Dinner, a Salute to the Spirit of Free Enterprise, to be held at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center, 1 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, on Jan. 24.

Hoover Financial Advisors was chosen by the chamber as the Small Business of the Year. Prior to a 31-year career as a financial planner, Pete Hoover, owner and president of Hoover Financial Advisors, delivered the Daily Local News by bicycle.

As a middle schooler, Hoover said he enjoyed serving customers and receiving tips.

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“I started to love earning money and helping people,” Hoover said. “Most paperboys just threw the paper and I learned if you leave the paper at the front door in better shape people appreciated the personal service and rewarded me for it.”

Since 2005, from a 10-employee Malvern office, Hoover performs a myriad of investment related services, including setting up college funds, making retirement comfortable, handling tax issues, controlling cash flow and overseeing insurance matters.

“We put the pieces of one’s financial situation together to work collectively and efficiently to accomplish a client’s goals,” Hoover said.

Nancy Keefer, chamber president and CEO, said Hoover Financial was chosen because the firm excels in business with integrity and trust.

“They are a great example to other businesses on how to balance the demands of running a business, while encouraging community involvement,” said Keefer.

“We’re not paying the hauler to take it to the landfill,” said Covaleski. “There is no loser — except the guy operating the trash truck.”

Rather than building new structures, the brewery and retail shop in Downingtown has been housed in the converted Pepperidge Farm complex since 1996. The new 57,000-square-foot West Sadsbury location, a former warehouse, will also not negatively affect the environment like a new structure would.

Covaleski acknowledged that the brewery’s installation of solar panels has a major up-front cost but said it will pay dividends both environmentally and financially in the long run.

Nancy Fromnick, Chester County Recycling coordinator, said annual green business awardees were chosen because of the large sums of money saved, while beautifying the environment.

“Sometimes it’s very expensive, but by diverting and using more creative ways, the environment benefits at the same time,” Fromnick said.

Three hundred tractor trailer loads, or 13 million pounds per year, of grain used in the Victory brewing process, is fed to cattle and pigs.

More than six tons per month of excess Victory food product is composted with leaf material by Arborganic Acres of North Coventry.

Fromnick said Victory is a fine example for restaurants and institutions to use in diverting their food products.

According to Ivy Hunter, Victory Brewery restaurant and retail manager, the company recycles 8,000 pounds of corrugated cardboard. 1,900 pounds of plastics and 650 pounds of scrap metal monthly.

Victory is expanding from its Downingtown site on the East Brandywine Creek to a Parkesburg location on the west branch of the Brandywine. Covaleski said he expects the Parkesburg site, now a distribution center, to start brewing beer sometime this summer.

“We will not rely on one branch but rely on two and spread the demand across two watersheds,” Covaleski said.

The co-owner said production will be based on demand and dependent on sales, with a long-range goal to distribute and produce an additional 600,000 barrels of beer per year from the Parkesburg site.

Covaleski noted that craft beers make up 6 percent of market and are growing in popularity at a yearly double digit rate.

“We’re building for the future, there’s not a grand design, or huge marketing program,” Covaleski said.

Jerry Parsons of Communications Test Design is the keynote speaker at the Thursday, Jan. 24, dinner scheduled to run from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center, 1 Liberty Blvd.,Great Valley Corporate Center in East Whiteland.